MP recruitment board in information once more; candidates protest over two exams

By PTI

BHOPAL: Some of the candidates who appeared for the Madhya Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) and police constable recruitment examination staged a protest in entrance of the pinnacle workplace of the Staff Selection Board, earlier often called Vyapam, right here on Monday alleging irregularities within the two exams, a cost denied by authorities officers.

A piece of aspirants who wrote the Teacher Eligibility Test demanded that on-line TET be cancelled after a purported screenshot of the question-cum-answersheet went viral on social media, whereas the opposite set of protesting candidates sought a probe into the cops recruitment take a look at alleging malpractice.

Home Minister and state authorities spokesman Narottam Mishra claimed the screenshot of the TET paper which has gone viral was cast and referred to as it a conspiracy to malign the picture of a senior bureaucrat who’s an aide of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

However, if a police grievance is acquired it will likely be probed, Mishra mentioned.

The protesters held placards with the message ‘Cancel MP-TET 2022’ and demanded a probe into the simply held on-line constable recruitment take a look at.

They additionally petitioned officers in search of motion.

The gates of the constructing housing Vyapam (Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal), whose identify was lately modified to Madhya Pradesh Karmachari Chayan Aayog (Staff Selection Board), have been closed to make sure the protesters don’t storm into the campus, eyewitnesses mentioned.

Vyapam had bought embroiled in an issue on account of alleged rigging of exams for medical school admissions and authorities jobs spanning a number of years.

This was for the second time that the state authorities had renamed the examination conducting physique.

“A complaint has come to us. We are going to look into it. So far no wrongdoing has come to the fore,” an official of the Staff Selection Board related to conducting recruitment exams mentioned on situation of anonymity.

“I wrote the TET on March 25 online and saw the screenshot of the paper (of someone else) doing rounds on social media in the evening. How come the paper found its way on social media? We wrote the test in different examination centres spread across the state by ticking answers (on question paper itself). No camera or mobile phone was allowed inside examination centres,” a candidate who appeared within the take a look at instructed PTI.

Another protester mentioned that on March 24 morning the Board’s web site confirmed her as certified within the constable recruitment examination.

However, the identical night, it confirmed her disqualified, she claimed.

The protesters demanded a probe into alleged malpractice within the constable recruitment take a look at performed final month.

Home Minister Mishra mentioned the screenshot of the TET paper was cast and termed it as a conspiracy aimed toward maligning the picture of an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) of the Chief Minister.

“The OSD is a member of the tribal community and an able and upright officer,” Mishra instructed reporters right here.

An FIR has already been lodged towards a Congress chief on this regard, he mentioned.

The OSD, Laxman Singh Markam, on Sunday lodged a police grievance towards MP Congress chief spokesman KK Mishra and Vyapam rip-off whistleblower Dr Anand Rai alleging they’ve maligned his picture on social media in context of the TET row.

However, Congress chief Mishra claimed he has completed no incorrect.

“A police case has been filed against me alleging atrocity (on a tribal), which I have not committed,” KK Mishra mentioned.

He mentioned he will not get deterred by such police circumstances.

“I will continue my crusade against corruption,” the state Congress chief spokesman asserted.

The rip-off in Vyapam (later rechristened Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board) got here to gentle in 2011.

The CBI had taken over investigation into the mega recruitment and admission scandal after a Supreme Court order in 2015.